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Assistant Professor of Political Science Joel Alden Schlosser on Teaching Writing
June 13, 2018
The Emily Balch Seminar is the center of the First Year Experience.
Featuring intensive reading and writing, the thought-provoking Balch Seminars challenge students to think about complex, wide-ranging issues from a variety of perspectives.
This fall, Assistant Professor of Political Science Joel Alden Schlosser will be teaching the Balch course, “Do You Feel Lucky? Luck, Ethics and Politics.”
In a recent post on his blog, Schlosser wrote about teaching writing.
Teaching writing these past 10 years, I’ve come to shift my picture of how writing can be taught. Yes, I still lecture about gerunds and dangling modifiers. But I also emphasize even more the idea of studentship, of becoming your own best teacher.
Read the full blog post.